callie weston

Number 1 presidential speechwriter. Quirky and sometimes antagonizes other staff members, but she is tops at what she does. (In EXECUTIVE ORDERS) Secret Service codename: CALLIOPE.

Characters

Pat Martin

Seasoned trial attorney in the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice. Also lectures at George Washington University on constitutional law. Tall, in his 50s. has been at Justice for 23 years, and was at FBI for 4 years before that....
Dave James

Dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, who recruits Colonel Alexandre (ret.) to join the faculty (in EXECUTIVE ORDERS)....
Pat Oday

Senior watch officer and Inspector at the FBI. Often sent out as troubleshooter on “touchy” cases. Widower and single father of a 2.5 year old daughter named Megan. Wiry build, 64” tall and 200 pounds, wears cowboy boots and drives a pickup truck though h...
Sergey Golovko

Chairman of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR, or RVS in the book; essentially the new KGB) and de facto principal foreign policy adviser to the Russian President. Adversary of Ryans during the Cold War, now a respected ally who calls him “Ser...
Ali Bin Sheik

Prince Ali Bin Sheik is a Saudi royal in Tom Clancys novel Executive Orders.more...
Arnie Van Damm

Chief of Staff for President Durling then President Ryan. Brought to the US as a child after World War II; his father was in the Dutch Resistance. (Secret Service codename: CARPENTER)...
Scott Adler

Friend of Jack Ryan, a senior State Department official who becomes Acting Secretary of State (in EXECUTIVE ORDERS), then full SECDEF. (Secret Service-assigned codename EAGLE in deference to his surname Adler, which means “eagle” in German. He is the son ...
Mary Pat Foley

Close friend of Jack Ryans since they were both analysts at CIA. Speaks fluent Russian, as does her husband Ed Foley. Posted to Bonn station, then Moscow station in the 1980s. Became DDO (CIA Deputy Director of Operations) then named DNI by President Ryan...
Ding Chavez

Assistant Director of Ops for The Campus. Originally from East Los Angeles, he went into the Army, then became “a protective officer in the CIA, and a team leader of the Rainbow multinational counterterrorism unit.” Worked with John Clark for years before...
Jack Ryan Sr

Grew up in Boston, the son of an Irish American cop. Married to Dr. Cathy Ryan, mother of their 3 children: Sally (Olivia), Jack, Jr., and Katie (Kathleen). Former Marine Lieutenant who earned a Ph.D. in History and taught at the U.S. Naval Academy in Ann...
John Clark

Clarks character appears first in Tom Clancys “Jack Ryan” series, at an older age, married, with 2 grown daughters. Clancy later wrote a spin-off series about John Clarks early career, beginning in 1972. In this series, as *John Kelly, he introduces himse...
Cathy Ryan

Caroline ‘Cathy Ryan, MD, an ophthalmologic surgeon who trained- and teaches at Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore. Invented a laser surgery technique for the retina for which she was awarded the Lasker Prize. Wife of President Jack Ryan...
Robby Jackson

Closest friend of Jack Ryan; became an admiral, then Director of Operations (J-3) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. (Rear Admiral in EXECUTIVE ORDERS.) He and his wife Sissy are longtime friends of Jack and Cathy Ryan and live in Annapolis....
Tony Caruso

Assistant Director (AD) of the FBIs Washington (DC) Field Office (WFO). In EXECUTIVE ORDERS, he is the ADIC, Assistant Director in Charge....
Daryaei

Iranian Ayatollah Daryaei engineers the assassination of the corrupt Iraqi President (implied to be Saddam Hussein), the removal of his top generals, the invasion and annexation of Iraq to form the ‘United Islamic Republic (UIR), headquartered in Tehran....
George Winston

Founder and owner of Columbus Group, a mutual fund group HQ on Wall Street (New York City). (In DEBT OF HONOR). President Ryan asks him to become Secretary of the Treasury in EXECUTIVE ORDERS. His Secret Service codename is TRADER....
Ali Badrayn

Iraqi-born terrorist who has gone by many names, but returns to his real nam in EXECUTIVE ORDERS. Advises Ayatollah Darya....
Dr. Moudi

Iraqi physician working in Zaire, in a hospital built by the WHO (World Health Organisation)....
Sister Jean Baptiste

Roman Catholic nurse from Northern Europe working in Zaire (which she still thinks of as the Belgian Congo), in a hospital built by the WHO. Works with Sister Maria Magdalena and Dr. Moudi....
Ed Foley

Picked by new President Ryan to be DCI (Director of Central Intelligence, i.e., head of CIA and the entire U.S. Intelligence Community*). He and wife Mary Pat Foley both speak Russian fluently and together are a formidable team. They both started out as a...
Gennady Bondarenko

General-Lieutenant Gennady Iosefovich Bondarenko, visiting Fort Irwin NTC in EXECUTIVE ORDERS....
Marion Diggs

Brigadier General Marion Diggs, base commander of the U.S. Armys National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Hood, California....
Mogataru Koga

Prime Minister Koga of Japan (in DEBT OF HONOR and EXECUTIVE ORDERS)....
Ed Kealty

(Former) U.S. Vice President forced to resign in DEBT OF HONOR, then claims he never submitted his letter of resignation in EXECUTIVE ORDERS. From a well-to-do family; has a long history of public service (read: self-promotion and self-interest)....
Andrea Price

U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Price is the principal agent charged with protecting FLOTUS, Dr. Cathy Ryan, code name SURGEON....
President Grushavoy

Grushavoy is President of the Russian Frderation in EXECUTIVE ORDERS. He so depends on the advice of Sergey Golovko that he is de facto his chief minister....
Don Russell

Primary Secret Service agent assigned to protect SANDBOX (Katie Ryan). An older gentleman with a grandfatherly aspect....
Marcella Hilton

Additional Secret Service agent assigned to protect SANDBOX (Katie Ryan)....
Gus Lorenz

Special pathogens branch head for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. (in EXECUTIVE ORDERS)...
Ralph Forster

Head of the infectious diseases department at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. (Appears in EXECUTIVE ORDERS.)...
Ben Goodley

Dr. Ben Goodley is hired by President Ryan early in his presidency to be Acting National Security Adviser. Before that, he was a National Intelligence Officer (NIO) in charge of the watch at CIA. His dream is to become DCI someday—based on merit, not poli...
Bert Vasco

State Department senior desk officer for Iraq. (In EXECUTIVE ORDERS)...
Tony Bretano

Named U.S. Secretary of Defense by President Ryan during his first week in office. Bretano has 2 doctorates from MIT, one in mathematics and one in optical physics. He has experience in industry and engineering as well....
Aref Raman

Secret Service Special Agent on detail at the White House (in EXECUTIVE ORDERS). Half Lebanese, half Iranian, born in Iran but sent to the U.S. as a child after his parents were killed. Graduated from Duke University summa cum laude. Has a photographic me...
Callie Weston

Number 1 presidential speechwriter. Quirky and sometimes antagonizes other staff members, but she is tops at what she does. (In EXECUTIVE ORDERS) Secret Service codename: CALLIOPE....
Col. Pierre Alexandre

After spending 20 years working on infectious diseases at Walter Reed and Ft. Detrick, US Army Colonel Pierre Alexandre (retired) wants to return to treating patients. He is hired by the Dean of the JHU Medical School as an associate professor starting ou...
Captain Sato

Captain Torajiro Sato of Japan Airlines was the pilot who flew a jet plane into the U.S. Capitol in revenge for the deaths of his son and brother by U.S. military forces off Saipan (in DEBT OF HONOR)....
Roy Altman

Principal Secret Service agent in charge of protecting Dr. Cathy Ryan (codename SURGEON). He stands 63” tall and weighs 220 pounds....
Ernie Brown U0026 Pete Holbrook

Two members of the “Mountain Men”, a white supremacist, anti-government conspiracy group and would-be domestic terrorists in EXECUTIVE ORDERS; Ernie sold his plumbing business in California to buy a farm in Montana, where he and Pete build a fertilizer bo...
Zhang Han San

Chinese “minister” who meets with Daryaei and the Indian Prine Minister in EXECUTIVE ORDERS to discuss the U.S. and its new President Ryan. Probably senior in the PRCs intelligence service. In his 50s but looks 10 years younger; 54” tall, about 10 kilos o...
Michael Brennan

Secret Service principal agent in charge of protecting Little Jack (Jack Ryan, Jr.), code name SHORTSTOP (in EXECUTIVE ORDERS)....
Gwendolyn Merritt

Secret Service principal agent in charge of protecting SHADOW, USSS code name for Olivia (‘Sally) Ryan, eldest daughter of President Ryan (in EXECUTIVE ORDERS)....
Movie Star

Code name for Iranian assassin hired by Daryaei, tasked with orchestrating the multiple-city biowarfare attacks in the U.S. as well as the kidnapping of SANDBOX. “Dieter Kolb” is just his latest cover name, his forged German ID stating he is from Frankfur...
Bob Holtzman

Washington Post reporter and friend of Arnie Van Damm. Believes President Ryans account of the facts, not Ed Kealtys spin. Convinces John Plumber to believe likewise. (In EXECUTIVE ORDERS)...
Cliff Rutledge

Assistant Secretary of State for Policy in EXECUTIVE ORDERS. Friend of former VP Ed Kealty....
Col. Hank Goodman

Pilot of Marine 1, the U.S. Presidential helicopter (in EXECUTIVE ORDERS)....
John Plumber

Senior commentator for NBC News in Washington, DC., “rolled” by Ed Kealty into believing falsehoods about John Ryan. (In EXECUTIVE ORDERS)...
Tom Donner

News anchor for NBC News who interviews President Jack Ryan for a tv special report then says the tape was damaged so he can reinterview him with harsher questions. Youngish reporter who cares more about appearance and career than the truth or journalisti...
Carol Zimmer

Asian-born widow of USMC sergeant Buck Zimmer, killed in a covert action in Columbia just as he was being extracted. Since Jack Ryan was there when he was shot, he promised Zimmer that he would take care of his family. To that end, he established a sub-S ...
Liz Elliott

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Mr. Alahad

Iranian sleeper agent who operates a carpet showroom in Georgetown, Washington DC. He is Ramans contact....
Mordecai Azir

Fake name of Iranian sleeper agent in Maryland who is the contact for Movie Star and his crew. As soon as the kidnapping is foiled, he drives to BWI and flies to JFK—then disappears. The FBI arrive at his home soon thereafter and discover ammo and evidenc...
Ellen Sumter

White House or Oval Office secretary....
Gen. John Pickett

Major-General John Pickett commands USAMRIID (United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease) at Ft. Detrick in EXECUTIVE ORDERS. He is a graduate of Yale Medical School and has a Ph.D in molecular biology from Harvard and a Ph.D in p...